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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511005" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Junk and the Dhow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;An Unqualified Pilot&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Once a pair of savages found a stranded tree. <br> (One-piecee stick -pidgin -- two piecee man. <br>Straddle-um-paddle-um-push -um off to sea.<br>That way Foleign Debbil-boat began.)<br>But before, and before, and ever so long before<br>Any shape of sailing-craft was known,<br>The Junk and Dhow had a stern and a bow,<br>And a mast and a sail of their own--ahoy! alone!<br>As they crashed across the Oceans on their own!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once there was a pirate-ship, being blown ashore--<br> (Plitty soon pilum up, s'posee no can tack..<br>Seven-piecee stlong man pullum sta'boa'd oar. <br>That way bling her head alound and sail-o back.)<br>But before, and before, an ever so long before<br>Grand Commander Noah took the wheel, <br>The Junk and the Dhow, though they look like anyhow,<br>Had rudders reaching deep below their keel--ahoy! akeel!<br>As they laid the Eastern Seas beneath their keel!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once there was galliot yawing in a tide.<br> (Too much foolee side-slip. How can stop?<br>Man catchee tea box lid--lasha longaside. <br>That way make her plenty glip and sail first-chop.)<br>But before and before, and ever so long before<br>And such contrivances were used,<br>The whole Confucian sea-board had standardized the lee-board.<br>And hauled it up or dropped it as they choosed--or chose--or<br>chused!<br>According to the weather, when they cruised!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once there was a caravel in a beam-sea roll--<br> (Ca'qo shiftee--alla dliftee-no can livee long.<br>S'posum' nail-o boa'd acloss--makee ploper hol'?<br>That way ca'qo sittum still, an' ship mo' stlong.)<br>But before, and before, and ever so long before<br>Any square-rigged vessel hove in sight,<br>The Canton deep-sea craft carried bulkheads fore and aft,<br>And took good care to keep 'em water-tight-atite-atite!<br>From Amboyna to the Great Australian Bight! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once there was a sailor-man singing just this way--<br> (Too muchee yowl-o, sickum best flend!<br>Singee all-same pullee lope--haul and belay!<br>Hully up and coilum down an'-- bite off end!)<br>But before, and before, and ever so long before<br>Any sort of chanty crossed our lips,<br>The Junk and the Dhow, though they look like anyhow, <br>Were the Mother and the Father of all Ships--ahoy!--a'ships<br>And of half the new inventions in our Ships!<br>From Tarifa to Formosa in our Ships!<br>From Socotra to Selankhor of the windlass and the anchor,<br>And the Navigators Compass in our Ships--ahoy!--our Ships!<br>(O, hully up and coilum down and--bite--off--end!)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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Once a pair of savages found a stranded tree. 
 (One-piecee stick -pidgin -- two piecee man. 
Straddle-um-paddle-um-push -um off to sea.
That way Foleign Debbil-boat began.)
But before, and before, and ever so lo..."></div>
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